Of Airbnb bans, high-rises near Purdue and racial reconciliation
And that’s just for starters on a busy first Monday of the month. A look ahead at some of stories and the votes driving the early part of the week in Lafayette, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe County
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Looking back this morning at editions from recent days to look ahead at a handful of stories in play early this week.
PROPOSED AIRBNB BAN UP FOR VOTES: Monday could signal the end of new Airbnb and Vrbo-style rental homes in single-family neighborhoods in Lafayette and West Lafayette, as well as much of the rest of Tippecanoe County, with proposed restrictions on short-term rentals up for votes. The proposed change in the county’s zoning ordinance, requested earlier this year by the West Lafayette City Council, received a unanimous recommendation on June 18 from the Area Plan Commission. The Lafayette City Council and Tippecanoe County commissioners, who would set the zoning policy for neighborhoods in the unincorporated parts of the county, have the proposed ban on their agendas Monday, too. Neighborhood leaders, the West Side school district and the mayors’ offices on both sides of the river are pushing for the new zoning rules. Airbnb and the rising number of short-term rental entrepreneurs in the community have been rejecting the notion. To read the full proposal, here’s a link. Here’s a look at the proposal and the history: “Airbnb ban in Lafayette, WL single-family neighborhoods up for votes Monday.”
WEST LAFAYETTE CONSIDERS RACIAL RECONCILIATION TASK FORCE: The West Lafayette City Council on Monday will consider creating a task force that looks to “rectify the harms created by past discriminatory laws” in during decades of house in West Lafayette, starting nearly a century ago. The resolution follows research done by Racial Recognition of Greater Lafayette and a Purdue Honors College class into racially restrictive covenants that were written on plats for West Lafayette subdivisions built between the 1920s and the 1950s.
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